I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.